Did Syria doctor this odd photo of Assad?

[somone]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2011/jul/12/syria-doctor-odd-photo-assad

Did Syria doctor this odd photo of Assad?
Something doesn't look quite right about a handout photo of the president swearing in a new governor
Posted by Sasha Magill

The state news agency has released a photo of the president, Bashar al-Assad, swearing in the newly appointed governor of Hama, Anas Abdul-Razzaq Naem. But something does not look quite right.

The Guardian's imaging expert David McCoy believes two pictures have been merged to make it seem like the men are in the same room, with the one on the right positioned fractionally higher than the one on the left. This becomes clearer when you look closely at the floor, which is distorted. The right hand side of the picture has been stretched downwards into place to line up with the left side (which is not distorted).

McCoy says it is also suspicious that the two men are not looking directly at one another. "Assad appears to have had the edge detail on his hair smoothed out, in contrast to the harsh, overly sharpened edges visible elsewhere on his body," McCoy says.

[GReedDiamond]

1. Truly, perhaps the worst Photoshop ever...

...EVER!!! I tell ya!!!

[wtmusic]

2. Nope.

Sometimes camera-mounted flash shadows make it look like photos have been pieced together, but the shadows are similar and the curvature is consistent with lens distortion.

The man on the right looks higher because the camera is tilted - note window frames.

And the #1 reason: why would anyone bother?

[MADem]

3. Bashar sure didn't get his mean ole daddy's looks, now, did he?

He gets uglier by the day, the old sap.